March 9 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Tonight Mr. Gilder and Dorothea dined here. Dorothea looked very sweet in a little marquise bodice, brilliantly charmingly flowered. She left early to go to a concert but Mr. Gilder stayed on and was very interesting in his talk about Roosevelt as a reader, and as a man with a phenominal [sic] memory. Only as a politician is he not admirable [MTP: TS 43].

Philip Cabot wrote for Henry Copley Greene to Miss Lyon, acknowledging the signed leases from Clemens, and returning one signed copy for Sam’s files [MTP].

Margaret T. Chanler and Mrs. John Elliott sent an engraved invitation to a Shakespearean Recital by Mr. Samuel Arthur King on Thursday morning, March 11, at 11:30 [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote “ansd” on card.

Moses Allen Starr, M.D. wrote from NYC to Sam, responding to Sam’s questions about Dr. Kirch’s supposed overcharges. “I have received your letter and am only sorry that you have had the trouble of writing it.” Starr explained that prevalent fees should proscribe what a “professional man of honesty” should charge. Starr had recommended Kirch, so felt some responsibility—he had done so from the word of Mr. W. D. Barbour of NYC, whose wife had been under Kirch’s care for four months in 1902-3 [MTP]. Note: Clemens wrote on the env. “Dr. Starr’s verdict against Kirch.” See Sam’s of Feb. 26.